Radio Continental Drift
Sampler . Attic Transmissions . Brixton 2007/08

track 1
(6:04) from 24hrs (EAST) 100 jingles
24hrs is an on-going acoustic movie of street writings in cities, here, excerpts ('jingles') of footage gathered in Athens, Istanbul and Nicosia, summer 2004; further audio from 24hrs (joburg jingles): http://www.archive.org/details/24hrs; and 24hrs (london) on Gruenrecorder: http://www.gruenrekorder.de/?page_id=175; in print, in: 'Autumn Leaves', Double Entendre 2007: http://www.vibrofiles.com/essays_autumn_leaves.php)

track 2
(14:45) radio interview: LONG WALK broadcast 18/11/05 on SAfm
First Chess Tournament Across a Fence: organisers Claudia Wegener and Pitso Chinzima, and S.A. Chess Champion Watu Kobese on the telephone; in Afternonn Talk: presented by Faith Daniels http://www.joburg.org.za/2005/nov/nov18_chess.stm
http://www.bagfactoryart.org.za/html/resident/residents/claudia2/claudia.htm
http://www.bagfactoryart.org.za/html/NEWS/nov05.htm

track 3
(4:22) from RADIO ARMED RESPONSE
dramatic' field recordings from the city of Johannesburg S.A.; footage recorded in Sandton and Soweto in March 2006; as 60mins radio piece broadcast on Resonance104.4fm 27 April 2007; download at: http://podcasts.resonancefm.com/archives/675;
http://www.artzone.co.za/template_level2.asp?parentseq=500

track 4 - 5
from LONG WALK (abridged)
freedom (1:44); innocent language (2:53)
two tracks from a 30mins piece for RADIA network, Jan. 2007;
free download at: http://www.radia.fm/programmes/archive/2007/01/;
based on recordings of instant street translations of Mandela's biography 'Long Walk to Freedom' (abridged edition) by people in the inner city of Johannesburg, Park Station and Alexandra township in March 2006; presentations: Tate Britain (May07) http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/eventseducation/symposia/8314.htm; and "vision du reel" (April08): http://www.visionsdureel.ch/nc/programme/programme-quotidien/18-avril.html

track 6
'Captive of the City' (12:43)
interview with William Kentridge in his Joburg studio (Dec. 2005)
published on CD by: AUDIO ARTS: as part of: Vol. 24 No. 4, 2007
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/audioarts/about.shtm

track 7 and 8
from STREET WRITINGS
laundry laws (2:33); river bank song (2:12)
edited mixes based on the results of workshops with people at crisis/ skylight in East London April – June 2006; broadcasts on Resonance104.4fm in May/ June 2006; CD by WEEDWORKS, summer 2006; distributed via ARTWORDS Bookshop http://www.artwords.co.uk/acatalog/Audio.html; see also: http://www.alandunn67.co.uk/arnold.html

track 9
from the NO-GO-ZONES audio radio project:
Railton Road Sound Systems (4:17)
this track from the no-go-zones on-line archive of audio clips and samples featured in a recent live re-mix on Canadian air by Garth Rennie on Cjam91.5fm, listen at: http://www.archive.org/details/No-go-zonesLiveOnCjam_823; access to the no-go-zones archive:
http://nogozones.wordpress.com/ details and history of the project: http://www.myspace.com/nogozones

track 10
from the NO-GO-ZONES audio radio project:
Condensed History (3:37)
part of a special audio report on Notting Hill Gate Carnival 2006 and 2007; re-mixed in a 5mins movie 'MONDAY' by Weedworks & Trunkstore screened at 'Sons de plateaux' in Marseille in May 2007 http://www.international-exhibitionist.org/previous/2007_marseille/01_claudia_wegner/index.html


total audio: 55.2 mins


Radio Continental Drift
a broad casting house in the bag of a drifter
out to here voices . heard + unheard . the
air is free !


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Artist/Composer: radio continental drift
Keywords: radio continental drift; no-go-zones; radio communities; Long Walk; Long Walk (abridged); Long Walk to Freedom; Radio Armed Response; Audio Arts; William Kentridge; South Africa; 24hrs; street writings; Notting Hill Gate Carnival; sound system; Railton Road; Brixton; cjam91.5fm

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